... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

... meta-spam: advertisements of lists of email addresses and tools to send spam. ... Never, never inform the spammer that you have received his message. ... Suppose you get some spam with these headers (real example): Return-Path: 29111238@ix.netcom.com Received : from main.mccme.rssi.ru (main.mccme.rssi.ru [193.232.215.1]) by mccme.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04007 for webmaster@mccme.ru ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:03:19 +0300 From: 29111238@ix.netcom.com Received : from mail.medford.net ( ...

January 2004 Starfields. The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... 1 January 2004 Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using January 2004 Newsletter President's Message.. HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! ... The December meeting of the ATM's of Boston was called to order by our esteemed President Eileen Myers. ... David is the director of Public Relations at CfA. ...

NAME ABbuilder - DFO data organization tool SYNOPSIS ABbuilder <options> where <options> are: --raw-dir directory containing raw data --cal-dir directory containing calib data --cal-ldir directory containing symbolic links to calib files --cal-list mcalib list --vcal-dir directory containing virtual products --pro-dir where pipeline products are created --ab-dir where association blocks are created --oca-rul file containing OCA rules --instrume instrument --date YYYY-MM-DD --mode { CALIB | ...

October 14, 2006 ---------------- Version 3.1 ----------- As of this version, XmTel is considered stable for routine use. and it is useful for the control of telescopes for both amateur and professional uses. ... XmTel does not yet include the suite of pointing corrections that are already in the menu system (but disabled). ... With the offset correction a well-aligned small telescope will point to arc minute accuracy and well enough to put an object in a CCD camera field of view. ...

LEADER INSTRUCTIONS Translating an Alien Message by Dennis Schatz (Pacific Science Center) An Activity for the Whole Family from Project ASTRO © 2003, Project ASTROTM, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., ... After gaining some experience with different kinds of simpler messages in Decoding Radio Messages from Space, families tr y their hand at decoding a somewhat more complex radio message received from an imaginar y alien civilization around another star. ...

As it proposed by the Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad, the first part of preparing application to participate in the coming IAO is presenting of a short report of National Astronomy Olympiad of the current year for the Advisory Committee. ... Date of receiving report from the country . ... July 18 - August 7 . ... August 31 . ... Date of receiving draft report (or not full report) . ... Date of receiving official application . ... Done after receiving ANRAO application) . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Development of Organizational Structure . Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . Rocket Systems . Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... of the Energia-Buran Space System . ... Among problems solved while developing the Energia-Buran Reusable Space System were: . ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ...

... StelTextureBackend Class Reference . Base class for texture implementations. ... Definition at line 95 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 101 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 157 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 200 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 185 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 130 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ... Definition at line 143 of file StelTextureBackend.hpp . ...

... Alien Life . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Lone Signal Project was founded by several entrepreneurs and scientists and is based at the Jamesburg Earth Station in California.б  You may have heard of this station before as it supported the Apollo 11 Moon landing and actually received ... televised images of the astronauts setting foot on the lunar surface. б The station will now be utilised to transmit messages into space !б  The project will beam messages in any Earth language into ...

... I now want to discuss a completely different use of the internet--for educating the public, for making it aware of the exploration of space by unmanned satellites. What we have produced here is a general qualitative overview of space physics, the kind of material which could fit a freshman course "space physics for poets." ... One option being seriously considered is to try both routes and make this a printed book as well as a web document. ... Electric Currents from Space (+H) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... What Color is Mars? ... Hoagland's Credentials . ... There have been all sorts of silliness happening from the usual groups, including claims that the Beagle II failed because the U.S. shot it down, aliens on Mars shot it down, aliens on Mars are known by NASA, NASA is covering up alien artifacts, NASA is causing bad weather on Earth, NASA is the devil, etc. Leading the way with this nonsense is none other than Richard C. Hoagland. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

... Students were asked to complete a questionnaire after the end of the course. ... All students completed the questionnaire. 38% of the students commented that it forced them to thoroughly learn and understand the course material. ... Took lots of thought and made you apply lecture material. 31% of students commented that this exercise forced them to think hard. ... I conclude that the exercise succeeded in making students thoroughly think through and learn the course material. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

Progress in science is inversely proportional to the number of journals" . ... PHYSICS JOURNALS . SPIRES-HEP Database Covers more than 415,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, received by the SLAC and/or DESY Libraries since 1974. ... Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics . ... Journal of Geometry and Physics (Special Issues) . ... Journal of Nuclear Materials (Special Issues) . ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... a) assembling and tuning of printing-circuit boards for the Test-set device and assembling of the Test-set device itself; . ... Engineering models of the On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard (ORFS-SRT) and Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequencies Synthesizer set (OHCFS-SRT) were packed and delivered to LA to be assembled with the SRT in the Device Container. ... FC                  Focal Container – hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ...